1974 Topps Washington National League: 15/15
Not really DC cards but the rumors of the time that the San Diego Padres were going to move to DC were so believable and the deal was so close to actually happening in late 1973 during the off season Topps produced 15 Padres cards marked as "Washington Nat'l Lea. They then corrected those cards with the "Padres" versions. (I have both sub-sets.)032b Johnny Grubb RC053b Fred Kendall077b Rich Troedson102b Bill Greif125b Nate Colbert148b Dave Hilton173b Randy Jones RC197b Vicente Romo226b Washington Nat'l Team241b Glenn Beckert (In Cubs Uniform)250b Willie McCovey309b Dave Roberts364b Cito Gaston387b Rich Morales

1961 Post: ?
Looks like I'll have to get the Twins cards (91-100) cause all the players seem to be in Senators caps/unis from 1960 season. Other than that it doesn't seem they made any "Washington" cards.

*O Pee Chee cards generally parallel the Topps issue, but some years they didn't match up exactly so some of these lists will be off. The Trading Card Database only has two 1965 OPCs listed even though there are a few more. A few other years they are missing some OPC cards. For 1968 they are missing the Topps Game Inserts.

13 December 2013

In the before my time category we have a 1954 Bowman Baseball card. Now This card is one of five 1954 Bowman Senators cards that I had gotten from Ebay some 6 or more years ago as a five card lot. I have since forgotten how much I paid for them and since getting them I have only gotten one more 1954 Bowman Senators card of the 14 from that year. I have other '54 Bowman's for a total of sadly only 8 cards.

1954 Bowman Baseball 104 Frank Shea Senators

(Front and Back)

I really should show those other 5 Bowman Senators sometime, well when I eventually get the rest of the Team Set I will post the full thing.

11 December 2013

Man oh man oh man. I really gotta get off my duff on this project (and a bunch of other projects in my life). Just about every team card collector at some point needs a complete listing of the cards they need to complete a team set. I'm looking for the basic base sets here, not necessarily the master sets. I'll cross those bridges when I get to them.

Of course the much older vintage team sets will be very difficult if not impossible to get, but I think a reasonable goal would be to at least get all the team sets from 1950 to 1971 for the Senators and for the Nationals 2005 and up. The main goal will be the flagship Topps, and Bowman sets when applicable. For the Nats I'm not sure about trying Upper Deck and Panini or whoever else has been in the game these last few years. Of course I will try getting Senators cards from before 1950 but I doubt I will be able to complete too many of those earlier sets.

I am working on a "Page" for my team set needs. On that page I am listing the sets by year with a tally of the cards I have from that set (ex. 10/12). My first few posts will be general decades, and then as I complete sets or get closer to completion I will post about them individually. My 1950s Team Sets List Post is almost ready to go.

1959 Topps 397 Washington Senators Team Card

One of my sources for compiling these lists is The Trading Card Database. It isn't completely flawless, but it thankfully helped me with a big portion of the listing.